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1
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, vol. 2 (London:
Macmillan, 1910), 907.
2
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron,
Popular Lectures and Addresses
, vol. 1:
Constitution of Matter
(London: Macmillan, 1889), 349.
3
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron, “On the Secular Cooling of the Earth,”
Transactions of the Roy-
al Society of Edinburgh
23 (1863): 298.
4
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron,
Popular Lectures and Addresses
, vol. 2:
Geology and General
Physics
(London: Macmillan, 1894), 44.
5
. D. Lindley,
Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy
(Washington, D.C.,
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6
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron, “On the Age of the Sun's Heat,”
Macmillan's Magazine
5, no. 5
(1862): 368, italics added.
7
. S. G. Brush,
Transmuted Past: The Age of the Earth and the Evolution of the Elements
from Lyell to Patterson
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 27.
8
. Kelvin, “On the Secular Cooling of the Earth,” section 11.
9
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron, “The 'Doctrine of Uniformity' in Geology Briefly Refuted,”
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
5 (1866).
10
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron, “On Geological Time,”
Transactions of the Geological Society
of Glasgow
3 (1871).
11
. J. Playfair,
Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth
(Edinburgh: 1802).
12
. J. Marchant,
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences
(New York: Harper,
1916), 268.
13
. T. H. Huxley, “Geological Reform” (1869), in
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says
(New York: Appleton, 1909), 38-39.
14
. Ibid., 47-48.
15
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron, “Of Geological Dynamics,” in
Popular Lectures
, 2:74-75.
The Bank of Time
1
. J. D. Burchfield,
Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
(Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1990), 85.
2
. J. Phillips,
Life on the Earth: Its Origin and Succession
(Macmillan, 1860), 124.
3
. Ibid., 126.
4
. C. Darwin,
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of
Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
(London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1859), 282.
5
. Ibid., 287.
6
. Darwin Correspondence Database,
http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-2647
.
7
. T. M. Reade,
Chemical Denudation in Relation to Geological Time
(London: David Bogue,
1879), 8.
8
. Ibid., 31.
9
. T. M. Reade, “Measurement of Geological Time,”
Geological Magazine (Decade III)
10,
no. 3 (1893): 97.
10
. Ibid., 100.
11
. A. Geikie, “Geological Time,”
Geological Magazine
4 (1867): 171-172.
